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Overviewagriculture of grief: prayers for my father's dementia charts the gradual loss of a beloved parent to dementia. The poems here attempt to navigate multiple landscapes of mourning, multiple iterations of loss. They are quite literally grounded in grief, calling on Shomali's father's relationship to the land as a farmer and a Palestinian. The poems also reference Catholic faith practices, sacraments, and prayers. Shomali invokes, questions, and resists that religiosity as she reckons with her father's relationship to his faith. The poems are at times religious and at times sacrilegious. Written primarily in English, with some Arabic and Arabish interspersed throughout, the poems play with translation, transliteration, code switching, and refusal. The poems experiment with form and lyric, attendant to sound and song especially. Anchored in language and loss, agriculture of grief explores grief as the final form of love, and the capacity and limits of prayer as a kind of mourning. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mejdulene Bernard ShomaliPublisher: Finishing Line Press Imprint: Finishing Line Press Volume: 182 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.059kg ISBN: 9798888386767Pages: 38 Publication Date: 23 August 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor Informationmejdulene bernard shomali is a queer Palestinian poet and associate professor in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Williams College. she is the author of Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives (Duke University Press 2023). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |